[lbo-talk] Occupy Police

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Oct 24 15:49:53 PDT 2011


You raise quite a few interesting questions. This is just a note on one that is easy to decide. As a SNCC member once remarked, "If I'm alone in the middle of ar oom with 100 armed me, I'm going to be all for non-violence. In the situation you describe only a lunatic or a provocateur would want to bring a weapon. And unfortunately, sometimes mostly 'sane' people have momentary fits of lunacy, as did one of the people who came over one night in May 1970 to "protect my house." I still shudder all these years later at what might have happened and almost did.

Carrol

On 10/24/2011 5:15 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:


> i never know what to make of all this. In fact, asked a question of
> folks about this a couple of weeks ago. still interested in thoughts
> on the matter.
>
> Someone circulated the story of how cops in Albany refused to arrest
> Occupy Albany over the weekend. He saw it as evidence as to why we
> must always be solicitous to the Sizzlean. But I was more interested
> in the story for the way the cops acted as management sometimes acts
> in the face of C-levels (threads of Burnham's managerial revolution?)
> but way more interesting than even that was simply the fact that they
> don't have the resources to fight the war. Talk about grabbing a
> fissure in the system and tearing it open even more.
>
> Anyway, most of the people in our Occupy are stoked at what they think
> of as police helping us. Like, when they ride along on motorcycles as
> escorts to marches. People leave thank you notes behind after a
> gathering in front of a public monument to the civil war dead. LOL
>
> When a debate errupted over bringing weapons, guns specifically, to
> the park and encampment, it was eventually determined that the guy
> threatening to show up with his gun would be escorted out of the area
> by the cops.
>
> This from a group of avid 2a supporters!
>
> Basically, the idea is to cooperate with officials because, for most
> people, the idea isn't to disrupt operations, but to 1. build
> community; 2. expand group membership; 3. take an accounting of who we
> are; 4. figure out how people who are really different can actuall
> work together.
>
>> And now for something completely different:
>> http://www.occupypolice.org
>> --
>> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure
> mægen
>> lytlað."
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